Woke Antisemitism: A Reckoning
In their rationalizations of violence against Jews and Israelis, they’ve outed themselves as the extremists they are.
David Bernstein
· 10 min read
Israel
A collection of 121 posts
The Gazan Gordian Knot
Following a litany of failures, Israel must now contemplate a menu of bad options.
Shmuel Bar
· 14 min read
Israel’s New Reality
In these dire circumstances, deterrence will only be restored with overwhelming force.
Brian Stewart
· 6 min read
The Ideology of Mass Murder
Hamas and the origins of the October 7th attacks.
Jeffrey Herf
· 9 min read
Israel’s Everywoman at War
Helen Mirren’s Golda Meir offers a profile of greatness in the face of overwhelming adversity.
Michael Oren
· 16 min read
Remembering ‘Exodus’
A perennially controversial bestseller turns 65.
Kevin Mims
· 18 min read
Israel’s Perilous Moment, Then and Now
Herf tells the complicated and often surprising story of the internal political struggles in Western capitals, as well as in the halls of the United Nations, that erupted at the end of the Second World War.
Sol Stern
· 14 min read
PODCAST 127: Historian Benny Morris on the Forgotten 19th-Century Genocide of Turkey's Christians
Jonathan Kay speaks to famed Middle Eastern historian Benny Morris, whose latest book explores the ethnic cleansing of Turkey during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire. Transcript Jonathan Kay: Benny Morris is one of the world's most well-known historians of Israel and its conflict with the Palestinians,
Quillette
· 19 min read
My Military Jail-Time in Israel
In combat, the IDF was more disciplined, which accounts for its battlefield successes—though these probably also owed a lot to the character and quality of the armies they had faced.
Benny Morris
· 20 min read
The War of Return—A Review
The War of Return is an important book and, unquestionably, a welcome corrective to the plethora of myths, lies, and misconceptions that litter the discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Benjamin Kerstein
· 19 min read
PODCAST 54: New York Times Editor Bari Weiss on Her New Book
New York Times editor and opinion writer Bari Weiss talks to Jonathan Kay about How to Fight Anti-Semitism, her new book on the rise in anti-Semitism in the U.S. on the Left and the Right, and what we can do to combat it. Featured image, Bari Weiss on Real
Quillette
· 1 min read
Is Liberal Immigration Anti-Democratic?—A Reply to Gadi Taub
Immigration restrictions, like tariffs and other restrictions on trade, affect the activities of citizens above all.
Sam Kiss
· 12 min read
Are Anti-BDS Laws an Assault on Free Speech?
Pluralism has been curiously absent from the BDS debate, which is currently gridlocked over the more narrow question of state neutrality.
Aaron Sibarium
· 8 min read
An Israeli Agent on Campus
The need for bridge-building and constructive dialogue has been overtaken by the belief that everyone in Israeli society is complicit in that nation’s uniquely deplorable sins.
Ari David Blaff
· 12 min read
What Makes a 'Self-Hating' Muslim?
Wajahat Ali’s crime is that by mere association with a Jewish group, he was tarred by important sections of the Islamic community as a traitor.
Tanveer Ahmed
· 7 min read